Virtual Towards Level 2 Cardiac CT

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  • Hands-on, with your personal virtual workstation for 6 days
  • Interactive, with walkthroughs and quizzes
  • You report at least 150 scans
  • Vendor-neutral: no lock-in to a specific manufacturer
  • Endorsed by SCCT
  • Ideal for cardiologists and radiologists
  • Eligible for 46 credits in accordance with the CPD scheme by the Royal College of Radiologists, UK

This course is carefully designed to provide ideal active training while simultaneously helping towards meeting the requirements for Level 2 competence as defined in the ACCF/AHA clinical competence statement guidelines.

You do not need prior Level 1 competence. This course will build your knowledge, ability and confidence and help you become an independent cardiac CT practitioner.
The analysis techniques you will learn will ready you for a variety of CT and PACS software vendors.

The course is held over 6 days, providing ample time for detailed image review with each case demonstrated by a level 3 trainer (SCCT/EACVI).

Core didactic lectures are recorded and will be made available before the virtual course, ensuring the maximum time for case review. The lectures cover:

  1. Patient and scanner setup
  2. Technical principles of multi-slice CT and its application to imaging the heart
  3. Different gating techniques, their advantages and limitations
  4. Image acquisition and reconstruction
  5. Radiation dose inherent in cardiac CT as well as dose reduction strategies.
  6. Contrast injection techniques
  7. Contrast kinetics, administration, contraindications and complications
  8. Cardiac anatomy and physiology as applicable to CT
  9. Techniques of image reconstruction and post-processing
  10. Techniques to minimize and reduce image artefacts
  11. Cardiovascular risk assessment
  12. Current indications and applications of cardiac CT
  13. Cardiac CT interpretation
  14. Anatomy of the heart and thorax

You will see live-recorded cases and discuss interactively the key practical points and pick up tips and tricks to produce the best quality images at the lowest doses.
Group size is limited to ensure adequate interaction with the faculty and to optimise the learning experience.

Course Features

  • Speaker Dr Ben Ariff
  • Date 07 - 12 March 2021
  • Time 08:00 AM - 18:00 PM (SGT)
  • My time
  • Seats 4 / 20
  • Status Registration closed
  • CPD points CPD points 46 RCR 154.25 RANZCR

08:00 am - 08:30 am
Enter & settle in virtual class room
08:30 am - 10:00 am
Workstation use and cardiac anatomy
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Coronary anatomy and standard nomenclature
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Physics of cardiac CT and reducing the radiation dose
12:45 pm - 01:30 pm
Lunch
01:30 pm - 02:15 pm
Patient Preparation, Cardiac Drugs and Protocols
02:15 pm - 02:45 pm
Live case demonstration
02:45 pm - 03:30 pm
Calcium scoring
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Break
04:00 pm - 04:30 pm
Workstation session 1: Calcium scoring
05:00 pm - 05:30 pm
Coronary Artery Anomalies
05:30 pm - 06:00 pm
Workstation session 2: Interpretation of coronary anomalies

08:00 am - 10:00 am
Review method (3D card) and advanced workstation use
10:00 am - 01:00 pm
Workstation session 3: Native coronary artery disease
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch and lecture - Applications of Cardiac CT
02:00 pm - 03:30 pm
Workstation session 4: Native coronary artery disease
03:30 pm - 03:45 pm
Break
03:45 pm - 06:00 pm
Workstation session 5: Native coronary artery disease and live case demonstration

08:00 am - 08:30 am
Image optimization
08:30 am - 09:30 am
Recap of cardiac anatomy and the 17 segment model
09:30 am - 11:00 am
Workstation session 6: Native coronary artery disease and live case demonstration
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am - 01:00 pm
Workstation session 7: Native coronary artery disease including CTO and infarction
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch and workshop - Advanced workstation techniques
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm
Cardiac Stents and CABG
02:45 pm - 03:30 pm
Workstation session 8: interpretation of stents
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Break
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Workstation session 9: interpretation of stents
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Review method of CABG and Interpretation of CABG

08:00 am - 11:00 am
Workstation session 10 Interpretation of CABG
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Break
11:15 am - 01:00 pm
Workstation session 11: Interpretation of CABG and mixed CAD cases including Infarction
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch
02:00 pm - 02:45 pm
Acute Aortic Syndrome Lecture
02:45 pm - 03:30 pm
Workstation session 12: Aortic pathologies and acute aortic syndrome
03:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Break
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
Stress imaging and CT FFR Lecture
05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Workstation session 13: Assessment of cardiac function and advanced workstation use

08:00 am - 09:30 am
TAVI assessment and annular measurements
09:30 am - 11:00 am
Workstation session 14: TAVI assessment and valve disease
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Break
11:30 am - 01:00 pm
Workstation session 15: TAVI assessment and valve disease
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Dilated right heart, pulmonary hypertension and triple rule out lecture
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Workstation session 16: dilated right heart and basic congenital heart disease
04:00 pm - 04:15 pm
Break
04:15 pm - 06:00 pm
Workstation session 17: basic congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathies

08:00 am - 09:30 am
Pericardium and cardiac masses
09:30 am - 10:45 am
Workstation session 18: interpretation of the pericardium and cardiac masses
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 01:00 pm
Workstation session 19:extra cardiac findings and miscellaneous
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
“Lunch and lecture” -- Extra cardiac findings
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Recap and review of cases
03:00 pm - 03:15 pm
Break
03:15 pm - 04:15 pm
Test cases
04:15 pm - 05:30 pm
Accrediting in cardiac CT
05:30 pm - 06:00 pm
Conclusion and ques

MRCP, FRCR, PhD Consultant Cardiac Radiologist
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

Dr Ben Ariff is a consultant radiologist working at Imperial College NHS Trust, London and subspecialising in cardiac CT and cardiovascular MR, working within a multidisciplinary tertiary environment.

Dr Ariff is level 3 accredited in cardiac CT (SCCT/BSCI) and CMR (SCMR); was an ESOR cardiac imaging fellow at Leiden University and has extensive experience in clinical pharmacology and general internal medicine, working at the International Centre of Circulatory Health and St Mary’s Hospital, having obtained CCT in both.

He was awarded a PhD for his work focusing on carotid artery remodeling and the local haemodynamic effects of anti-hypertensive agents combining computational fluid dynamics with imaging techniques.

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